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Board or Commission Name: SUBURBAN CEMETERIES TRUSTEES Description: The said board shall have the authority to grant and convey to person or persons, by deeds duly executed, the sole and exclusive right of burial and of erecting tombs, cenotaphs, tablets and other monuments in any of the designated lots or subdivisions of said cemeteries upon such terms and conditions as they, by their rules and regulations, shall prescribe; and said board may make all necessary by-laws, rules, and regulations in the execution of their trust, not inconsistent with this act [chapter] or repugnant to the laws of this state, as they shall deem expedient; and said board shall hold said property and estate for the same purposes, and charged with the same duties and liabilities for and subject to which the same are now held by the city councils of said Nashua, and all rights of ownership of lots which any person or persons have acquired in said cemetery shall remain to the same extent as if this act [chapter] had not been passed. Provided, however, if any person or persons shall fail or neglect for one year after a written notice to make improvements upon their lot, said lot shall be forfeited to this corporation. [A-332] The proceeds of sale of lots or rights of burial, appropriations by the city councils, or other moneys, except as hereinafter provided, received for said cemeteries, shall be paid into the city treasury, to be kept separate from any other funds of the city, and subject to the order of said trustees, and shall be devoted to the care, improvement, embellishment, and enlargement of said cemeteries under the direction of said trustees. Said board of trustees shall have the same power and authority as cities and towns now or hereafter my have in such premises, to acquire, by purchase or otherwise land adjoining said cemeteries, to be used in connection therewith for the same purposes. [A-333] I. Except in those municipalities in which other provisions have been made by a general or special act of the legislature, all cemetery trustees in the state shall: (a) Adopt bylaws and regulations for their transaction of business and for the establishment and management of all municipal cemeteries within their responsibility; (b) Prepare an annual budget indicating what support and maintenance of the municipal public cemeteries will be required out of public funds for submission to the appropriate agency of the municipality. A separate budget request shall be submitted for planning and establishment of a new public cemetery and for capital improvements or expansion of an existing public cemetery; (c) Expend all moneys raised and appropriated by the municipality for cemetery purposes. Such funds shall be maintained in the general fund and paid in the same manner that funds of other municipal departments are paid; (d) Expend income from all trust funds for cemetery purposes in accordance with the conditions of each donation or bequest accepted by the municipality. Such trust funds shall be held in the custody and under the management of the trustees of trust funds. The trust income shall be transferred to the cemetery trustees by the trustees of trust funds in response to vouchers executed by the cemetery trustees, if the requested funds are available. Such trust fund income shall not be commingled with the moneys raised and appropriated by the municipality; (e) Prepare deeds of cemetery lots for the governing body to sign. II. Cemetery trustees may appoint a cemetery custodian or sexton who shall not be a trustee and who shall be responsible to the cemetery trustees for supervising work done in the cemeteries. [NH RSA 289:7]

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